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Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. X. Friday, March 1, 1940 No. 9 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1939 Member 1940 Associated Colleftide Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briar ate 3800 Co-Editors Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Feature Editors Frances Sayre, Julia Mary Hanna, Marie Von Dnska Assistants Mary Lou Bell, Eileen Mahoney Club Editor Joan Kaspari Assistants Patricia Ellis, Rosemary Lanahan News Editor Helen Murphy Assistants Elaine Iiartman, Dorothy McCarthy, Evelyn Nelson Copy Editors Lavinia Cole, Anne Marie O'Rourkc Reporters Joan Morris, Patricia Byrne, Helen O'Day, Ann Dempsey, Mary Joe Fahrendorl, Marie Rudd, Ruth Tentler, Betty Grimm, Patricia Gould, Flor ence McDonnell, Geraldine Hoffman. Journalist Writes 30 James O'Donnell Bennett, retired star- feature writer of the Chicago Tribune, died last Tuesday night, after a distin guished career in journalism. In 1892 Mr. Bennett began his work as a Chicago newspaperman a work which took him through World War I, into fascinating and dangerous places, among famous people of all nations. And in 1931, when Mundelein College began its career, he introduced it to readers of the Chicago Tribune in a front-page story upon which thousands of visitors have commented a story full of his characteristic vitality, manner, and des criptive power. He wrote, in part: 'To Mundelein College,' said I to the taxi driver. 'It's a high building close to Loyola university.' 'And 1 ought to know,' the driver replied ... 'I helped build it. . . It's mar velous.' That was the word the young man used and that it was no exaggeration I learned before the day was over. We drew up before scholarship in a skyscraper an extensive college under one roof and as such, the only one in America.. We drew up before a mighty monu ment to the energy and originality of American womanhood. We drew up before a stone structure that towers above the villas and residen tial hotels of the neighborhood . . . And I, too, as I wandered through marble halls and into an auditorium as large as a downtown theatre, and into a resplendent Gothic chapel, and into the model kitchen of the home economics de partment, and into the solarium where birds were singing and flowers blooming and a fountain splashing, and into twen ty studios of the music department, which has the whole sound-proof seventh floor to itself, and into laboratory after lab oratory equipped with acid-proof tables then I, too, marvelled. That was the first visit of Tames Eighteenth of April Not 75 But '40 Eight years ago, in April of 1932, the Student Activities Council sponsored a card party in the social room and the gym nasium. The affair was a modest one, but proportionately successful, sufficiently so, in fact, to have become the ancestor of the annual Mundelein College Card Party and Fashion Revue. The Card Party of 1940, sponsored by the present S.A.C., and featuring a fashion show with Mundelein models, will occupy the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel, the largest and most appropriate location available. No modest undertaking, this, but an or ganized enterprise, requiring intelligent planning, competent direction, and, most important, the enthusiastic and energetic cooperation of the entire student body. HOW do you cooperate ? 1. Sell tickets. Make prompt returns, complete with ticket number, to a member of your class ticket committee. 2. Sell advertisements for the program. Secure blanks from the class advertising committee. If you do not wish to contact the advertiser yourself, submit the name to the committee chairman. 3. Sell patrons. Make returns to class patron committee. Hand in names of per sons to whom you wish patron letters sent. Remember the special offer for parents. Be accurate about all names and addresses. This is the recipe for a successful Card Party, greater and more elaborate than its ancestor, admittedly, but akin to it because of the identical Mundelein spirit which ex isted then and which can be counted upon now. Emigres to Eden The latest of the Utopians set to sea last week. Unlike their predecessors who trav eled in covered wagons or on magic car pets, these nineteen Californians boarded a yacht. Their destination was not Oregon, or Brook Farm, a Palace of Art or Shan- gri-La, but an uninhabited island in the Bahamas. According to the Chicago Tribune story, their garb was less picturesque than the open-throated soft shirts of the Brook farmers. They did not hope for high in tellectual attainment or appeasement of world-sorrow in pastoral life the Califor nians hoped for cattle, sheep, and plenty of rainwater to drink. In their aspirations they differ radically from the long line of idealists. It seems that from Plato to James Hilton, thought ful men have planned a perfect community in which men could lead perfect lives. In each generation individuals have tried to bring heaven to earth by leaving the mass of men and creating a new Eden. Islanders may see the sun rise glorious from the water, but city-dwellers may sec the eyes and hands of a variety of men; new Edenists may hear the wind, but met- lopolitanites may also listen to more than a few voices. Peace in solitude? Perhaps. But what is loneliness? Perhaps a tropical island is the solution to the Californian's problem. But most of us haven't yachts in which to escape, and some of us do not want to run away. It takes more than material things to make a Utopia and there is a challenge in the thought that our intelligent work may help to make our present surroundings resemble Utopia. You're the Critic v n J - UT0RroGRArHY gt; by A- YOU Read A. Milne. Dutton and Co., New York. j . . Not the the usual bio- TOU Meet graphical array of all the great and near-great who can possibly be crammed in between two covers, but a cozy, intimate gathering the author, his family, and a lew close friends. You Learn How a playwright, critic, and novelist can develop from one small Westminster boy with an unappeasable appetite and a penchant for quips and humorous anecdotes and poetry. All who are not classified as ''born gen iuses will appreciate Milne's slowly- acquired literary talent. y. c . The inside story of life at YOU hn Oy Westminster and Cam bridge as told by one who descries the in evitable inside story of life at Westminster and Cambridge. O'Donnell Bennett to Mundelein Col lege. He has visited the College since that time, he has given to the new li brary cherished volumes from his own collection of books. He has judged the manuscripts sub mitted by students year after year in the annual Creative Writing contest, and he has appended to each wise criticism and constructive suggestion. To the world, James O'Donnell Ben nett was known as a good newspaperman, who could associate himself with his as signments and write so that the reader could sec with his own eyes. To the Faculty and students of Mun delein College he was known also as a great man and as a generous friend. He has written 30 to his last assignment. May his great soul rest in peace. By Frances Sayre The play-by-play account of the agon izing pangs of hurried authorship with the inexorable deadline hovering overhead. Milne's family, which approaches Pipe With Father, and coughs discreet ly at With Malice Towards Some and its kin with delight fully stereotyped Brit ishisms. It isn't cricket to miss this com fortable, human autobiography. y. j Since Yesterday, by YOU Read Frederick Lewis Allen, Harpers. V ki Hoover, Instill, Lindbergh, YOU Meet Benny Goodman, Huey Lung, Shirley Temple, and other outstand ing figures of the last tumultuous decade. Remember the market crash. Technocracy, Knock-knock, and the miniature golf courses? Allen, gently prodding your memory, lines them all up for you in or derly, intelligent array. v . The vast trends, the na- lOU Leam (jonal whimsies, the tre mendous and picayune events which swept America from 1929 to 1939. Since Yes terday runs 10 years of hit thrillers in one immense yet compact movie, and gives you thereby a comprehensive view and a deeper understanding of the era you just closed. . Half-forgotten fads and YOU bnjOy follies brought back to you in all their pristine foolishness and fun; and thrill to the inception and growth sometimes slow, sometimes meteoric of the rules and values which now dominate the stage of international and national life. I-I-Zlz: l lt; VLUMII Life as a practice teacher is becoming extreme ly complicated for Marjorie Thomas, tall, blonde senior. One of her little gentleman pupils in the first grade honored her with a Valentine on Feb. 14, and followed it up a few days later with a large sheet of paper bearing a dog poem. Which was fair enough, but the poem was topped by a good-sized carmine heart, pierced with a spear and bleeding profusely. Bleeding hearts are so much less expensive than orchids * * * A Shakespearian roll-call gave a junior English major a chance to vent her feeling one day last week. When the instructor called Miss . . . . that young lady looked out the window at the grey sky and said, 'Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart. For this com plaint, the SKYLINE doctor prescribes thai junior move away from the windows and read MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. * * * Senior-Freshman basketball games have convinced the senior players that there is lit- tle left of their youth, and that the remainder is fast waning. It seems that the recruits who came to the rescue of the seniors' athletic re putation aged considerably when they walked into the gym to be confronted by 20 bright and practiced freshman foes ready to mo* 'em down. Not only that, but the redoubtable 20 were backed by an equally redoubtable cheer ing section. How about a nice ex-checker tournament next month? We'll bet our net wedgies on the seniors against all comers. I * * * ANOTHER MYSTERY UNSOLVED In college life one mystery Inevitably baffles me: When term papers and book reports Of staggering length and various sorts Arc cheerfully assigned by each ir- Remediably hopeful teacher To silently despairing classes, As each dying quarter passes, With words somewhat like these 1 cite: Students, it's odd / almost quite Forgot to mention one small item: Term papers You're going to write'em Outlines will be due on Monday So all day Saturday and Sunday ou can use your time to find References. May I remind You term papers are due the day Of quarterly tests, six weeks away. Why do these words so terse, explicit, During the next five weeks elicit Nothing even faintly kin To work? Does anyone begin A term paper before the eve Of deadline day? I don't believe The libraries are ever packed With writers tell the one exact Day preceding quarterlies. And yet, we all rebel at D's. No more two-hour papers for me Next time I am using three. * * * When May Farmer makes a promise, ski really means it. For instance: Having prom ised her dog a ride one lovely afternoon re cently, she was dismayed to learn that the family car was indisposed. Looking into t innocent, trustful brown eyes of the unsuspect ing puppy, she pondered the situation. Sll- denly the realization swept over her that she simply couldn't disappoint such a sensitive, impressionable canine. No, a Farmer don not lightly break her word. So May called a cab. Hansom gesture, we'd say.
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1940-03-01 (2)
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